To find information about Edgar Allan Poe, start by looking at an encyclopedia. Click on the icon below to visit World Book Online Encyclopedia - choose World Book Student. You can find his biography and links to articles and pictures as well as a view of Poe back in time (click on 'Back in Time Articles' on the menu on the left.
Next, look for books, videos and websites on the CIS Library Catalog:
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If you still can't find what you are looking for, try EBSCO Kids Search, Biography ReferenceCenter, Literature Reference Center. You can find more biography, magazine articles and criticism of his work.
Here are some very useful books and websites for you:
BOOKS:
921 POE
Meltzer, Milton, 1915-. Edgar Allan Poe : a biography. Brookfield, Conn. : Twenty-First Century Books, c2003.Theater in the blood -- A quick and clever boy -- The teenager -- Soldier--and poet -- In West Point, and out -- Satire and science fiction -- Editor, novelist, husband -- Hoaxes and horrors -- The first-ever detective story -- A popular lecturer -- New York : the rich and the poor -- "The raven"--and fame -- Death of the beloved -- The last years -- Chronology of Edgar Allan Poe. Examines the troubled life of the nineteenth-century writer whose poetry and short stories broke new ground in American literature.
FIC AVI
Avi, 1937-. The man who was Poe. New York : Avon, [1991], c1989.In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.
To find information about Edgar Allan Poe, start by looking at an encyclopedia. Click on the icon below to visit World Book Online Encyclopedia - choose World Book Student. You can find his biography and links to articles and pictures as well as a view of Poe back in time (click on 'Back in Time Articles' on the menu on the left.
Next, look for books, videos and websites on the CIS Library Catalog:
Remember to click on the tab 'One Search' for reliable websites and articles from databases!
If you still can't find what you are looking for, try EBSCO Kids Search, Biography Reference Center, Literature Reference Center. You can find more biography, magazine articles and criticism of his work.
Here are some very useful books and websites for you:
BOOKS:
WEBSITES
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/March-April-08/On-This-Day--World-Introduced-to-the-Detective-Story.html
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